How to say "Orientalism" in Hindi?
Shabdkosh tells about the word "oriental":
oriental
adjective
पूर्वी
Definitions
adjective
denoting or characteristic of countries of Asia
noun
a member of an Oriental race; the term is regarded as offensive by Asians (especially by Asian Americans)
http://www.shabdkosh.com/s?e=oriental&f=0&t=0&l=hi
"Orientalism" or any "ism" should be a latter construct - we can make anything into an "ism" for our own pleasure also. I am not sure if there is an exact Hindi equivalent. This term "orientalism" was invented by the Western countries.
The term is controversial too.
A central idea of Orientalism is that Western knowledge about the East is not generated from facts or reality, but from preconceived archetypes that envision all "Eastern" societies as fundamentally similar to one another, and fundamentally dissimilar to "Western" societies. This discourse establishes "the East" as antithetical to "the West".
Edward Said and The Production of Knowledge, by Sethi,Arjun (University of Maryland).
Shabdkosh tells about the word "oriental":
oriental
adjective
पूर्वी
Definitions
adjective
denoting or characteristic of countries of Asia
noun
a member of an Oriental race; the term is regarded as offensive by Asians (especially by Asian Americans)
http://www.shabdkosh.com/s?e=oriental&f=0&t=0&l=hi
"Orientalism" or any "ism" should be a latter construct - we can make anything into an "ism" for our own pleasure also. I am not sure if there is an exact Hindi equivalent. This term "orientalism" was invented by the Western countries.
The term is controversial too.
A central idea of Orientalism is that Western knowledge about the East is not generated from facts or reality, but from preconceived archetypes that envision all "Eastern" societies as fundamentally similar to one another, and fundamentally dissimilar to "Western" societies. This discourse establishes "the East" as antithetical to "the West".
Edward Said and The Production of Knowledge, by Sethi,Arjun (University of Maryland).
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